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Brief Biography (English)
Dr Anywar Godwin is a researcher, academician and entrepreneur and author. He completed his doctorate from the prestigious Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy & Immunology in Leipzig, Germany, the Institute for Virology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Leipzig and Makerere University, Kampala on a split site model, where he investigated the anti-HIV-1, immunomodulatory activity and cytotoxicity of medicinal plants used by herbalists for treating people living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda. He currently lectures at the Department of Plant Sciences, Microbiology & Biotechnology at Makerere University. His research interests are in the field of natural product development, pharmacognosy, ethnobotany and ethnopharmacology. He is the reviews editor for Frontiers in Pharmacology-Ethnopharmacology section and is passionate about research and has authored several publications in international peer reviewed journals. Dr Godwin is a member of several professional bodies and such as the Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research, the International Society for Ethnopharmacology, American Society of Pharmacognosy and among others. He currently serves as the vice president of the Uganda Textbook Academic & Non-Fiction Writers Association (UTANA).
